Some aspects of the evolution of the legal regulation of the right of citizens (population) to participate in the administration of justice in Russia

Abstract

The article considers the evolutionary transformation of securing the right of citizens to participate in the administration of justice. The author has carried out a detailed analysis of the origins of the birth of the right of citizens to participate in the administration of justice and formulated the main results of the development of the legislative consolidation of this right by referring to the analysis of legal acts of various historical stages and a comparative legal study of the experience of regulating this issue. In the course of the research, the author focuses on the evolution of the forms of citizens' participation in the administration of justice, the understanding of the citizen's competence in this area, the relationship with other political rights and freedoms of citizens. The author comes to the conclusion that the legislative consolidation of this right has a direct relationship with the social standards of a certain historical stage. The key aspects of the historical and legal development of the institution of citizens' participation in the activities of the courts can rightly be considered: - recognition of the fact of society's participation in the implementation of justice; - recognition of the institution of citizens' participation in the activities of the courts as a component of society; - registration of the institution of citizens' participation in the activities of the courts from the institution of society to a full-fledged component as part of state power;"- complication of the configuration of the circle of subjects of legal proceedings from the involvement of individuals as assessors directly in the court to the establishment of the right of these subjects to participate directly in the administration of justice. The author's approach to highlighting the forms of evolution of the legal regulation of the right of citizens to participate in the work of the judicial system seems to be original.